Chinooks
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- واژهنامه · Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Chinook jargon Function: noun Usage: often cap J Date: 1840 : a pidgin language based on Chinook and other Indian languages, French, and English and formerly used as a lingua franca in the northwestern U.S. and on the Pacific coast of Canada and Alaska]]> Chi·nook n. Pronunciation: shə- ' nu ̇ k, chə-, - ' nük Function: noun Inflected Form:   plural Chinook or Chinooks Etymology: Lower Chehalis (Salishan language of western Washington) ć inúk, name of a Chinook village Date: 1795 1 : a member of an American Indian people of the north shore of the Columbia River at its mouth 2 : a Chinookan language of the Chinook and other nearby peoples 3 often not capitalized a : a warm moist southwest wind of the coast from Oregon northward b : a warm dry wind that descends the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains 4 not capitalized : CHINOOK SALMON ]]> chinook salmon Function: noun Date: 1851 : a large commercially important Pacific salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) with red flesh that occurs in the northern Pacific Ocean ― called also king salmon chinook salmon]]>